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Australia 1988

Australia 1988 was held in Melbourne, Australia. The Men's Open Bodybuilding - Junior title went to Gus Abdullah.

Year
1988
Date
Jan 1, 1988
Federation
NABBA
Divisions
9
Competitors
26

Results by Division

Division Winner Runner-up
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Junior Gus Abdullah Bill Angelopoulos
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Medium Enzo Giuffre Barry Whitnell
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Short Bruce Leong John DiStefano
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Tall Gary Lewer Tony Struck
Men's Open Bodybuilding - Teen Sherif Derias Peter Kafouros
Women's Bodybuilding Kim Knott Glenda Black
Women's Figure Jeanette Harper Gloria Ormsby
Women's Bodybuilding - Masters Virginia Hamblin
Other Divisions - Masters Peter Gambell Peter Leighton
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Australia 1988

Gus Abdullah Champion

1988 Melbourne, Australia Dec 31, 1987

Australia 1988 was held in Melbourne, Australia. The Men's Open Bodybuilding - Junior title went to Gus Abdullah.

Medium confidence Historical/community source Updated August 8, 2026 Accurate?

Australia 1988 contested 9 divisions across 26 athletes, 7 open and 2 age-restricted Masters, competitors from 2 countries. Gus Abdullah took Men's Open Bodybuilding - Junior. 9 divisions crowned a champion; each is judged independently. No round scores were published for this event, so placings are shown without them.

Best represented Australia (24) - United States (2)

Masters divisions 2

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Junior

Place Athlete Country
1st Gus Abdullah First recorded win Australia
2nd Bill Angelopoulos Australia

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Medium

Place Athlete Country
1st Enzo Giuffre First recorded win Australia
2nd Barry Whitnell Australia
3rd Joseph Zahra Australia

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Short

Place Athlete Country
1st Bruce Leong United States
2nd John DiStefano Australia
3rd Frank Asimakopoulos Australia

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Tall

Place Athlete Country
1st Gary Lewer First recorded win Australia
2nd Tony Struck Australia
3rd Paul Glen Australia

Official scores are unavailable.

Men's Open Bodybuilding - Teen

Place Athlete Country
1st Sherif Derias First recorded win Australia
2nd Peter Kafouros Australia
3rd Nicolas Harding Australia

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Bodybuilding

Place Athlete Country
1st Kim Knott First recorded win United States
2nd Glenda Black Australia
3rd Darelle Williams Australia
4th Susan Narthey Australia

Official scores are unavailable.

Women's Figure

Place Athlete Country
1st Jeanette Harper First recorded win Australia
2nd Gloria Ormsby Australia
3rd Lily Caridi Australia
4th Jacqui Cook Australia

Official scores are unavailable.

Masters divisions

Age-graded classes, judged separately from the open divisions above.

Women's Bodybuilding - Masters

Only the winner of this division was recorded by the source. The full placings are not in the database.

Place Athlete Country
1st Virginia Hamblin First recorded win Australia

Official scores are unavailable.

Other Divisions - Masters Men

Place Athlete Country
1st Peter Gambell First recorded win Australia
2nd Peter Leighton Australia
3rd Alan Dowsett Australia

Official scores are unavailable.

Complete Results updated June 10, 2026 Source: MuscleMemory

This edition in context

Competitors
26
Divisions
9
Size rank
19 of 21

Past winners of this event

Winner of the headline division for each edition of this event on record.
Year Winner Division
2015 Renae Johnstone Physique
2014 Shaz Campbell Bodybuilding
2012 Anne Sievers Bodybuilding
2010 Shaz Simpson Bodybuilding
2009 Lisa Bailey Bodybuilding
2008 Nickie Ware Bodybuilding
2007 Marian Wilford Bodybuilding
2004 Joanne Rogers Bodybuilding
2003 Vicki Reid Open
2002 Sandra-Lee Jose Open
2001 Joanne Rogers Open
2000 Joanne Rogers Open
1997 Gillian Bromley Bodybuilding
1995 Lisa Egan Bodybuilding

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What this page holds

The placings as recorded, and nothing past them

This page lists the divisions and finishing order held for this contest, with the source named on it wherever one was recorded. It reports what was published. It does not re-judge the show, and it does not reconcile disagreements between sources.

  • Score and bodyweight columns appear only for divisions where those figures exist in the data. A division without them was recorded as placings only, not as a show that gave no scores.
  • Where the record has two athletes sharing a place, both are listed. A tie is never broken to produce a single winner.
  • Venue, federation, date and competitor count show only when the source supplied them. A field left out means nothing was sourced for it, never a zero.
  • A contest with no results has either not taken place yet or has no placements published. Check the status line above the results to tell which.